Greatness Quotes - Page 20

• Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Leadership

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• Greatness is won, not awarded.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Motivation, Business

  Guy Kawasaki (2011). “How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

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• When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Death, Discovery

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• Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

  Voltaire

  Country, War, Wish

  Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

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• Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Humility, Men, Evil

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• Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Childhood, Doe, Vantage Point

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• We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

  Brother Lawrence

  Humility, Littles, Little Things

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.12, Booklassic

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• There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Trying, Sparks, Divine

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• We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.

  John Adams

  Heart, Ignorance, Government

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1979). “Papers of John Adams”

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• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Different, Amor, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.714, Modern Library

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• So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.

  Lady Gaga

  Broken, Trying, Periods

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Jun 07, 2010

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• We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a new light. That is the greatness of the holy scriptures. They are that way because they were created by holy prophets who experienced the truth. Each time we read these works we elevate ourselves to see a little more. (81)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Reading, Light, Holy Prophet

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Men, Giving, Selfless

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• don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

  Terry McMillan

  Sabotage, Succumbing

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• You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Men, Finding Happiness

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• In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.

  Alejo Carpentier

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Men

  Alejo Carpentier (1990). “The Kingdom of this World”, Andre Deutsch

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• Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Positivity

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.58, Canongate Books

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• What comes, is called.

  Ki Longfellow

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• A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

  Ernst Junger

  Art, World, Waste

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• So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

  Voltaire

  Country, Men, Evil

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• Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Innocence, Speak

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.39, Vintage

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• The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspiration, Wind, Mind

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• Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Father, Valentine

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.393, Tor Science Fiction

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• My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Love Is, Spurs

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